Photo: Exhibition of nominees "Kandinsky Prize-2008"

[Ilona]

November 6 at the Central House of Artists on the Crimean shaft opened an exhibition of nominees "Kandinsky Prize" 2008.
Kandinsky Prize was established in 2007, following the example of Turner Prize in Britain, Marcel Duchamp in France, Vincent in the Netherlands, Joan Miro in Spain.
Details of the Prize can be read here
http://www.kandinsky-prize.ru/

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The exhibition runs until November 20, 2008.
Unlike the 2007 competition, this year's nomination for "Artist of the Year" renamed to "Project of the Year" and the audience award and was completely abolished by the fault onto the actual audience. Voting took place at the exhibition itself by filling a special bulletin. But our audience could not resist and had voted dishonestly, filling several pages for a single candidate, etc.
The event itself is very large scale, at the opening were a lot of media and various guests, among whom were Valentin Yudashkin and his wife, Marianne, and Alexander Vertinsky, Andrei Erofeev.
In the last two photographs of the artist Anatoly Osmolovsky - winner of "Artist of the Year" award in 2007, artist and galeristka Aidan Salakhova.